DuraCloud Open technologies and services for managing durable data in the cloud Michele Kimpton, CBO DuraSpace

Open Source Portfolio DuraCloud

Goals of DuraSpace Stewardship: – Support and align open source development communities for DSpace and Fedora Innovation: – Think beyond existing platforms – New strategies for enabling access and preservation of digital content Sustainability: – Develop business model to sustain the non- profit and open technologies we support

DSpace and Fedora Installations Largest share of open repositories worldwide … over 700 institutions tracked in our registries Universities Research Centers Libraries Archives Cultural Heritage Government More…

Challenges (From our communities) Digital preservation and archiving is hard to achieve, even just basic replication Making digital content more accessible and useable to researchers Easy and elastic provisioning of shared infrastructure (also across institutions!) Robust compute environments for data mining and analysis of large datasets

Implications for our future work more distributed more collaborative more web - oriented more open more interoperable

What About the Cloud? A style of computing where massively scalable IT-related capabilities are provided “as a service” using Internet technologies to multiple external customers. (Gartner, 6/08).

Cloud services

Public Cloud Services Elastic web-based infrastructure for storage and compute

Economies of Scale and Cost Public cloud providers drive cost down through scale, location and virtualization technology Large Datacenters (tens of thousands of computers) Medium Datacenters (thousands) Source: Hamilton, Internet-Scale Service Efficiency,, LADIS Workshop (Sept 08) Technology* Cost Medium Datacenter Cost Large Datacenter Network$95 per Mbit/sec/mo$13 per Mbit/sec/mo Storage$2.20 per Gbyte/mo$.40 per Gbyte/mo Admin140 servers/admin>1000 servers/admin

Study of 605 government IT Yet, only 13% utilizing cloud compute today

Barriers

Here to stay

DuraCloud Proposition Trust and durability in the cloud DuraCloud is a platform aimed at supporting libraries, universities, and other cultural heritage organizations that wish to provide perpetual access to their digital content. The service replicates and distributes content across multiple cloud providers and enables the deployment of services to support: * access * preservation * re-use

DuraCloud A web based service enabling management of Data in the cloud DuraCloud mediating web Service Sun EMC Rackspace Microsoft

Vision: Preservation Support DuraCloud: content replication, auditing, and repair

Vision: Shared infrastructure DuraCloud: collaboration and data linking of stored objects

Vision: Data Analysis and Mining DuraCloud: running large compute jobs on stored content

DuraCloud Underlying software Open core Core components available for others to build on and run Open source - apache license Architecture to create cloud networks Public clouds Private clouds University consortia Also useful in research partnerships

Preservation Services -ability to replicate content to multiple providers and locations -ability to synchronize backup with primary store or repository system -management,monitoring, audit and repair through web based interface Hosted by DuraSpace not-for-profit org Partnerships with cloud providers

software services Other DuraSpace-provided services on top of content stored in the cloud –Data mining –Video Streaming –Format transformation –Repository hosting –discovery

DuraCloud: run your application as a service on content Enable others to build and deploy services and apps in DuraCloud environment

Partners and Pilots Selected initial cloud providers Selected 2 initial pilot partners

NYPL pilot -back up copy 700k images (50 TB data) -transformation from Tiff to JPEG run image server in cloud -Push JPEG 2000 back into Fedora Repository Digital Gallery Collection

BHL pilot -back up copy entire corpus (40 TB data) -have multiple copies including Europe -Do compute intensive data mining over corpus BioDiversity Heritage Library

Pilot use cases NYPL Replication and preservation support Format conversion Instant provisioning of image server Synchronization with repository BHL Replication and preservation support International collaborative infrastructure Researcher platform for data mining

Timeline Begin pilots(MOU’s in place) – September 2009 DuraCloud Alpha Pilot release- Oct 2009 Pilot data loading and testing – Fall 2009 Beta for repository community - Q Pilot testing with software services Q Cloud partner evaluations complete-Q Strategic cloud partnerships in place- Q Pricing Model determined-Q Report pilot results – Q Launch production service Q3 2010

Critical success factors Ease of use- simplicity Trusted partner for end user Cost effective Scalable/Flexible Can establish key partnerships with service providers Can build community of developers and users

Thank You For more information: DuraSpace Organization: Wiki: commons.org/confluence/display/duracloudpilot /